Tel : (919) 513-4438
Email: prpillai AT ncsu.edu
Education
PhD student, Atmospheric Science, Marine, Earth, and, Atmospheric Sciences, August 2009– Present.
MS Degree, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2009.
M.Sc Degree, Meteorology Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Cochin University of Science & Technology, India 2002.
B.Sc Degree, Physics, MG University, Kottayam, India, 2000.
Research Experiences
SEVIRI data calibration using MISR and AERONET AOT. Aerosol property retrieval using SBDART model, cloud property retrieval, cloud and aerosol radiative forcing calculation using CERES flux data, MIE code, LBLRTM, RRTM, and ray tracing, UAH, AL.
Land surface processes in General Circulation Modeling (LMD GCM), IIT Delhi, India.
The association and interaction between dynamics and convective processes at different spatio-temporal scales, C-MMACS, NAL, India.
M.Sc Thesis: A Diagnostic Study of Heavy Rainfall Events Using TMI Derived TPW Products
Contributed Conference Presentations
Zhang, Y., Y.-S. Chen, P. Pillai, and X.-Y. Dong, Sensitivity of Simulated Aerosol and Cloud Properties to Nucleation Parameterizations in 3-D Regional and Global Models, poster presentation at the 28th Annual Meeting of AAAR, October 26-30, 2009, Minneapolis, MN
Other Relevant Experiences
Advanced Satellite image processing skills and programming skills in IDL, and IVICS
Other computer skills are ENVI, ArcGIS, FORTRAN, C, MS.DOS, WINDOWS, LINUX, UNIX, GrADS, XMGR, TECPLOT
Experience in handling different satellite data sets such as MODIS, MISR, MOPITT, CERES, OMI, AVHRR, SEVIRI, ISCCP, ERBE, TRMM etc
Land Surface Modeling in LMD GCM, and working experience in different radiative transfer models such as MIE code, LBLRTM, RRTM, and ray tracing.
Handled surface observation datasets such as AERONET, EPA PM2.5 etc.
Fellowships
Junior Research Fellowship at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, January, 2005 - November 2006.
Junior Research Fellow at the CSIR Center for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), India, October, 2003 – December, 2004.
Joint Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) – University Grant Commission (UGC) Junior Research Fellowship & National Eligibility for Lectureship (NET), 2003, India.
Joint CSIR – UGC Junior Research Fellowship & NET, 2002, India.
Society Affiliation
Student member of American Meteorological Society
Research Interests
Air Quality Modeling
Satellite Remotesensing
Atmospheric Aerosols and its raditive forcing
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